Management

Soundview Executive Book Summaries® publishes summaries of the best business books of each year on management issues including change management, managing people, crisis management, managing a virtual workforce, project management and more. Browse our extensive collection of management book summaries to solve your most difficult issues.

Transform Your Most Valuable Business Contacts Into Personal and Professional Success

by David Nour

Based on David Nour’s global speaking and consulting engagements, Relationship Economics reveals that success comes from investing in people for extraordinary returns. Three major types of relationships are explained –– personal, functional and strategic –– including how to focus on each to fuel enterprise growth. Nour introduces new concepts in relationship management that can increase your ability to turn valuable business contacts into personal and professional success.

The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve

by Ray Attiyah

The Fearless Front Line is a call to action for leaders to set a standard of fearlessness where their frontline workers take pride in and take ownership of their critical roles. This, in turn, frees leaders to focus on the big-picture, bold strategies that can improve and grow the business. Ray Attiyah’s proven Run-Improve-Grow model for continuous improvement will stimulate a culture of consistent growth and constant innovation.

Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems

by Stephen R. Covey

A Soundview Featured Book ReviewConflict resolution has traditionally involved "meeting in the middle," a "lose - lose" situation in which both sides give up something important to find a solution. In his latest book, legendary management consultant Stephen R. Covey teaches you about the 3rd Alternative, a solution in which no one gives up anything and all sides share in the "win."

Business Success in the Worthiness Era

by Larry Costello, Ed Frauenheim, Laurie Bassi, Dan McMurrer

Laurie Bassi and her coauthors show that despite the dispiriting headlines, we are entering what they coin the "Worthiness Era." And in it, the good guys are poised to win. Across the globe, people are choosing the companies in their lives in the same way they choose the guests they invite into their homes. They are demanding that companies be "good company." The authors created the Good Company Index to look at Fortune 100 companies' records as employers, sellers and...

Why Managers Can't Hide

by Doug Katz, Craig Wasserman

Based on four decades of experience as management consultants, Wasserman and Katz make a compelling argument that all managers work in the heat of an invisible spotlight where their every word and deed are scrutinized by employees. Remarkably, most employees are unaware of this reality. The authors tell illuminating stories from the trenches about management successes and misadventures that offer a fresh, practical perspective on building sound management relationships.

Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization

by Jean Lipman-Blumen, Harold Leavitt

Different from teams, focus groups, or committees, hot groups are small, passionate, creative groups of individuals who come together to focus obsessively on a certain task, then flame out never to be seen again once the task is complete. The authors show what hot groups can do for your organization.

Success Stories from Leading Organizations

by Thomas Wilson

Case studies of companies who used compensation and reward systems to achieve their organizational goals -- from putting employees first at Starbucks to building an entrepreneurial spirit at Southwest Airlines.

Leadership Lessons and Turnaround Tactics of IBM's Lou Gerstner

by Robert Slater

Having explained Jack Welch and the GE Way in his previous best-seller, Slater now turns his attention to Louis V. Gerstner, who saved the floundering IBM by focusing on customers and demanding high performance from his managers and employees. Full of key leadership lessons for managing a turnaround.

How Optimizing Risk Rewards Both Your Bottom Line and Your People

by Judith Bardwick

Here's a bold approach to boosting employee productivity by motivating them to take risks and accept accountability, even in a time of layoffs. The results, this noted business author promises, are healthier employees and record profits.